Barbarian memory : the legacy of early Medieval history in early modern literature /

An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Birns, Nicholas
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Palgrave pivot.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Barbarian Memory and the Uncanny Past; Chaucer, Gower, and Barbarian History: "The Man of Law's Tale" and the Prologue to Gower's Confessio Amantis; Rome, Christianity, and Barbarian Memory in Titus Andronicus; Rhyme, Barbarism, and Manners from Trissino to Corneille; Index